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2003 Netletter#796 Nov 12/03 - The NetLetter

#796 Nov 12/03 - The NetLetter

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Subject: [The NetLetter] NetLetter nr 796 Nov 12/03 - The NetLetter Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:53:30 -0800MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Number 796 Nov 12th., 2003. We first published in October 1995. Circulation: 2700+

Chief Pilot - Vesta Stevenson - Co-pilot - Terry Baker

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================================================================ . Must know. Remember to update the expiry date on the credit card information you havesupplied to Air Canada to cover your trip pass expenses.

When travelling please make sure you check in on time. When travelling onstandby, you should be checked-in well before the 30 minute cut-off time (priorto departure). This will both enhance our on-time-performance and ensure youare not left behind when check-in closes for your intended flight. Yourco-operation is appreciated.

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. Nice to know. FAMILY AFFAIR SELLOFFDreaming of palm trees? We have another great Family Affair sell-off ­ Canada to Honolulu. Forget the worries of standby travel. If you’d like to spend some vacation time in the land of coral reefs and spectacular beaches, we have an offer for you. This month, active and retired Air Canada and Air Canada Jazz employees can enjoy a confirmed Family Affair reservation between Canada and Honolulu by taking advantage of a terrific 25 per cent off special. The last sell date is Nov. 30.

. Star Alliance news. Since months, United Airlines is working on its concept for a low costoperation under the project name "Starfish". This week, the airlineannounced that Denver will be the launch hub for the new subsidiary which aimsto take of in February 2004.

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. Air Canada news. Air Canada says that it can save c$70,000 by eliminating lemons and limesfrom its meal service. This will eliminate the fruit fly problem, but whatabout scurvy?

Dreams Take Flight effort saved through ingenuity, teamwork. As reported inthe Air Canada Technical Services weekly Hot Sheet, early last month, after alot of juggling and ingenuity, Dorval’s Line Maintenance and Cabin Maintenanceteams managed to save a ‘Dreams Take Flight’ trip originating in Montreal.Overnight Line Maintenance crews working to fix a sudden snag on theDisney-bound aircraft had to switch gears early in its shift when Fin # 633enroute to Rome was diverted to YUL because of a left engine malfunction. Theteam then had to work fast on a replacement aircraft so that AC passengerscould continue on their trip to Rome. While the Cabin Maintenance team tookcharge of the B767 bound for Disney World, Line Maintenance tackled thechallenges associated with the replacement aircraft, along with trying to solvethe problem with #633. As a result of the combined effort, AC passengers wereable to continue on their way to Rome with a 3:30 a.m. departure, whilechildren onboard the Disney flight left as scheduled later that morning. Bravoto the team members who contributed to this extraordinary effort.

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. News from the districts. Wake up you Halifax Pionairs and retirees! There's gold in them runways. Head for the Halifax International YHZ.According to local lore, the former owner of a local gravel pit says that mostof the gravel used for the runways came from an abandoned gold mine. Oldermining techniques were able to remove only 70% of the gold from the ore.Statistics show that 72,000 oz of gold was removed from 63,000 tons of oreeventually poured into YHZ's runways, which leaves a possble 31,000 oz outthere. Now aren't you glad to be retired and have time to search the site -good luck!(Remember you heard it here first - eds)

. Henry Anderson sends us this - Subject: Capt Steve AlbuletI was in Ireland last week and I found a write up in which the above wasinvolved Fifty-six years ago in Oct the last flying-boat to leave Foynes took off with69 people aboard enroute to Gander lake but it ran out of fuel, the capt sent aSOS message which Capt Albulet picked up ( he was flying to Prestwick) andrelayed the message. Other people also picked up the SOS. The end result wasthat the flying-boat put down in the ocean . All were saved by the USS George MBibb The Flying boat was called the Bermuda Sky Queen I have the paper cutting. It was in the Irish Times dated Oct 28 2003 Henry Anderson
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. Ted Tierney sends this snippit - As read in the BBC-3 ITV Teletext November 4. Budget Irish airline Ryanair has reported better than average profits for thefirst half of the year. The Dublin based "no frills" outfit posted a 16% risein underlying net profit to £120m Passenger volume has also risen by 45% to 11.3 million. This company aims toexpand passenger numbers to 24 million this year from 15 million last year. TedTierney.

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. Blissville follow up>>>Thanks to Jack Newart for the following info Hi George........Your piece on Blissville caught my eye and brought back some memories of my own. Blissville was my first assignment out of radio school in Winnipeg and my new bride and I railed to Frederiction Junction in the summer of 1946. We were taken to Minnie Nason's boarding house in the junction and met the rest of the station staff - Station Manager Pete Majdanik, radio operator Wally Mewdell, Bill Keys who I was there to replace, and mechanic Shorty Neil. I spent the following winter there till spring when the station was disbanded and operations moved to Pennfield Ridge. I was transferred to Yarmouth to participate in setting up the new station being opened up there. My most vivid recollections were when relief mechanic Joe Sagal had just come in to the office from 'felting' the fuel sample prior to refuelling a flight and apparently had spilled some fuel on his parka and when he got too close to the pot-bellied stove to warm up, his parka caught fire. All I remember was him yellling from the back room "Get that fire bottle and let me have it!" I did as I was told and let him have it till it was emptied out - he naturally suffered some burns to his hands and arms but nothing really serious. The other incident involved our precious Woody Wagon which TCA was able to acquire in the days of wartime shortages and priorities. We had experienced one of those heavy wet snowfalls and the altho the highway was plowed out, the side road in and out of the airport terminal building was plugged and the lines were down. I had been stranded at the airport all night because of the road conditions but the railway track which ran alongside the airport was plowed out and it intersected the highway further down the road. Pete had an idea that he could reach the airport by exiting the highway where it intersected the railway track and drive along the railway till he reached the airport road. He almost made it. As you might guess a train approached before he got there and he was unable to get the wagon out of the tracks and had to abandon it. Although it would be considered totalled nowadays, because it was virtually irreplaceable at that time, it was rebuilt and put back into service. We handled MCA at that time and they used both 10A.s and De Havilland Rapides. Best regards....Jack Newart unquoteJack confirms that TCA pulled out of Blissville when the Airport at Pennfield Ridge http://www.geocities.com/blacksharbour/pennfield.html was opened up to serve YSJ on Apr 1/1947. ( I am still collecting info on Pennfield for a later article). Jack Morgan was a young employee in sales at YQM in the spring of 1947 but remembers flying over to Blissville in a DC3 flown by Capt Eric Jokineen, and helping to close down the station. In the meantime, the city of YFC had gotten authorization to construct an airport at Lower Lincoln, but until this was completed in 1950, MCA provided the only air service using the small strip at Barkers point and Lockheed 10 aircraft.Finally, the following note was received from
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********************** Some years ago I bought from the estate of W.B.LeardC/O Waldron H Leard Kingsboro, South Lake Souris,PE C0A 2B0Some fine photos of a TCA Lockheed that pranged at Blissville. The photos, black and white, were of exceptional quality and might have been taken by Leard on disembarking from the crippled aircraft.I forwarded all of the photos to Capt Chas. Simpson, VP, for inclusion in the TCA memorabilia files. ******************** Hopefully, I can track down a copy of this picture. It is likely the aircraft that Don White refers to.
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. Terry's travel tips. David Williams sends this advice - Before tossing those key-cards, you may want to be sure there isn't a charge for them. Read on my friends. To those who return hotel key-cards, this is good info. WHO KNEW all that information was imbedded!! DESTROY those little suckers when you're done. IMPORTANT HOTEL ROOM CARD KEY INFORMATION Southern California law enforcement professionals assigned to detect new threats to personal security issues, recently discovered what type of information is embedded in the credit card type hotel room keys used throughout the industry. Although room keys differ from hotel to hotel, a key obtained from the "Double Tree" chain that was being used for a regional Identity Theft Presentation was found to contain the following the information: a. Customers (your) name b. Customers (your) partial home address c. Hotel room number d. Check in date and check out date e. Customers (your) credit card number and expiration date! When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner. An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense. Simply put, hotels do not erase these cards until an employee issues the card to the next hotel guest. It is usually kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!!!! The bottom line is, keep the cards or destroy them! NEVER leave them behind and NEVER turn them in to the front desk when you check out of a room. They will not charge you for the card. (Information courtesy of: Sergeant K. Jorge, Detective Sergeant, Pasadena Police Department)

. Smilie. Brian Dunn sends us these - Air Traffic Control story - "TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees." "Center, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?" "Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?"

There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing, because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked." Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. "Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded Seven-Engine Approach."

A student became lost, during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known position?" Student: "When I was number one for takeoff."

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